Graduate Prospects Overview

BBA Economics

Providing both breadth and depth of learning, the ECON program opens up career choices for graduates in a range of business areas, such as accounting, banking and finance, consulting, data and analytics, management, and public policy. Many graduates go on to pursue fruitful careers in the civil service and private sectors.

Employers include JPMorgan Chase & Co., the Societe Generale Group, Deloitte, Touche Tohmatsu Limited, Hang Seng Bank Limited, MTR Corporation Limited, HKSAR Government - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer etc.

BBA Finance

Our highly skilled and well-rounded graduates typically pursue careers in banking, fund management, trading, private equity, compliance, risk management, corporate finance, and management consulting. Recent positions taken up by graduates include those of analyst at Morgan Stanley, investment analyst at Citibank, management trainee at Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited, business management research at UBS Group AG and more.

FINA graduates are also well prepared to obtain high-level professional qualifications such as the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA®), Certified Financial Planner (CFP®), Financial Risk Manager (FRM®),  Professional Risk Manager (PRM™) and other internationally-recognized certifications.

BBA Global Business

The holistic and dynamic GBUS experience prepares every cohort to excel and thrive in any career paths they aspire to pursue, mainly investment banking, management consultancy, conglomerate retail and marketing, asset management, etc.

BBA Information Systems

IS graduates are in high demand in established corporates and start-up companies in both public and private sectors. Every year, 85-90% of IS graduates obtained their first job offer before graduation.  They went on to become business analysts, data/systems analysts, innovation supervisors/facilitators, IS auditors and control officers, IT consultants/advisors, and technology entrepreneurs.

BBA Management

BBA Marketing

The strength of the MARK program is demonstrated by our graduates’ impressive employment. The employment rate of MARK graduates consistently exceeds 90% and the percentage of graduates with multiple job offers is always over 60%. 

Employment offers come from more than 100 leading local and global corporations, such as American Express International Inc., Bank of America and BofA Securities (formerly Bank of America Merrill Lynch), EY, HKSAR Government, Hong Kong Disneyland, IHS Markit, KPMG, L’Oreal, LVMH, and PwC, The Hong Kong Jockey Club and The Hong Kong Trade Development Council.

BBA Operations Management

Our graduates’ technical competence, analytical ability, and communication and leadership skills well equip them to thrive in the rapidly growing OM employment sector. 

OM specialists typically begin their careers in areas such as quality management, planning and control, project management, and logistics. An increasing number of graduates are invited to take up coveted positions in the financial sector.

Graduates in recent years were employed as:

• Management Trainee at SF DHL Supply Chain Limited
• Inventory and Supply Chain Management Associate at MTR Corporation Limited
• Operations Specialist at Flexport Asia Limited
• Product Analyst at Bloomberg L.P.
• Content and Deal Analyst at The Walt Disney Company
• E-commerce Executive, APAC at Colgate - Palmolive (HK) Limited

BBA Professional Accounting

Our accounting graduates are popular among employers for a wide range of key roles, including but not limited to accounting sector. Over 50% of each recent graduating class have been recruited by Big 4 CPA firms. Close to 90% of our job-seeking graduates have been full-time employed before or at the time of graduation; and more than half of them have received multiple job offers from reputable and sizable corporates. 

Apart from the roles of Audit Associate, Compliance Analyst, Risk Assurance Associate, and Tax Consultant etc. in international accounting firms, accounting graduates have also taken up positions in other fields, such as Graduate Analyst at Deutsche Bank AG, Investment Associate, Account Manager at Microsoft Hong Kong Limited, Executive Officer in HKSAR Government. 

BSc Economics and Finance 

Our graduates have a competitive edge in a range of career fields, especially those requiring strong analytical and quantitative skills, such as being the data analyst at Bloomberg L.P.,  analyst at Deutsche Bank AG and finance associate at MTR Corporation Limited. Some graduates are employed to make economic strategies in financial institutes and the government.

The program’s sophisticated analysis and quantitative research training also prepare students to pursue further studies at prestigious universities. ECOF students have recently received offers from Cambridge University, Harvard University, the University of Oxford, and the University of Toronto, among others.

BSc Quantitative Finance

Our students commonly take one or two semesters of study leave to work as full-time interns at financial firms. The industry experience and connections they gain from multiple internships give them a significant advantage in the job market upon graduation. QFIN graduates are highly sought after by employers from the finance industry and across various business sectors.

Our graduates are also well prepared to obtain high-level professional qualifications such as Chartered Financial Analyst, Certified Financial Planner, Financial Risk Manager, and Professional Risk Manager certifications.

BSc Sustainable and Green Finance

SGFN program nurtures students to be effective leaders in the sustainable and green finance industry. The curriculum overlays business and finance topics with sustainability significance. Some courses are newly designed to address the growing attention on sustainable finance issues, important topics include ESG investing, governing green finance, sustainable supply chain management, risk management, circular economy, and so on. The learning experience in the SGFN program will be across the spectrum of theory and practice. Some courses incorporate real case analysis and interviews with sustainability managers of companies on top of the class lectures. Also, the latest sustainable and green finance development at national and global levels will be covered, to provide students with a global perspective in the field with local relevance. 

SGFN professionals are highly desirable globally, graduates will be able to develop careers in investment/ retail banking, asset management, risk management, ESG consulting, ESG reporting, corporate finance, private capital management, etc.

World Bachelor in Business

WBB responds to the demand expressed by the business world for young managers with international training. WBB graduates will be well positioned for careers in a broad range of areas in the private and public sectors, for their own entrepreneurial initiatives or for graduate school.  For details, please refer to;

https://wbb.hkust.edu.hk/wbb-experience.html#career-development